Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Just another Wednesday down at the saloon.#Pascalcampion #sketchingI was just sketching and it turned into this. Funny how that works.. I wasn’t thinking of anything in particular, just trying to wake up and boom... It’s different than usual, but I like it.

Friday, May 26, 2017

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Growing up in France we had a lot of those little cobble stone streets. They were nice but at 2 or 3 Am after a fun night out they were magical! With the little bistro lights hanging out and no one in site and the big shadows..

I know it’s just a sketch but sometimes, sketches like this make me happier than full blown illustrations.It’s funny what motivates us as artists in general. It’s usually not money although being paid a lot of money is nice and most of us dream about making a lot of it with our art.... when we think about it.. but mostly, motivation comes by doing a GREAT piece of art. Further more.. the piece of art has to be great in OUR eyes. We love being able to deal with a difficult problem and find a solution we had not yet thought of, or doing happy accidents and getting a fantastic balance between the technical and the intuitive aspect of our work.. When we feel we've done something better than what we've ever done before.. we feel good.It breaks our heart when other people don't see that and we tend to seek other people's approval of our art because it's a way for us to know that the intense stories that we live in our head actually have a connection and make an impact on the outside world.BT.. public approbation does NOT make an artist happy.. IF this artist doesn't think his work is worth it. That's a funny thing.... you can praise heaps and heaps of compliments on someone's work and it will feel....nice... most of the time, but it will definitely not take precedence over the feeling the artist has of his /her own work. This is where the feeling of being a hack comes from. We always hear "no pain no gain".. we tend to think that you have to work hard at something if you want to get better... and when we do a piece that takes us NO effort and people LOVE it, we feel like we've cheated. This feeling is reinforced when we actually work HARD at a piece and people barely take notice at all.The best though... is when as an artist you feel like you've worked hard, HAVE learned something AND the public recognizes your work AND you make a million bucksThen... yeah.... that's awesome.But money alone is not a great motivator for artists.

As usual..this is just my opinion and you are free to disagree!#pascalcampion

Saturday, May 20, 2017

They’re back!!No matter how old I am, each time I see fireflies it makes my heart beat faster, just like when I was a kid . I always think that feeling is gone forever and boom, it comes out of nowhere again and again. Kind of cool.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Monday, May 15, 2017

Close friends.My images tend to be fairly straightforward, but
sometimes I think they turn out to be metaphors. like this one... Very
often I feel like I’ve run out of ideas, that I have nothing left to
draw, that I’ve simply lost it( or worse.. I never really “had it”) and I
feel down and just.. kind of let go. And when I do, I relax, and open
myself to totally different experiences ( in this case feeding the
birds) and all of sudden.. ideas come back. But if I try to hard to
catch on, they’ll fly away, like the birds. It’s probably better to just
let the idea come to you and work with it and respect it. Feels like
you never OWN an idea, they just go from window to window, from season
to season and all you can do is hang out with them for a bit, enjoy the
experience and do the best with the time you have with it. If you hang
on too hard to it , you might be stopping other ideas from coming and
you might crush the one you already have.Again.. this is just Monday morning thinking.#pascalcampion

Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Ziiiiiiiiiiiip.
Pop?yes max?I’m sorry I broke the umbrella.It’s ok Max, I’m sorry I got upset with you.I won’t do it again.You
know Max, it’s by doing stuff, trying new things that you learn and you
grow. I don’t want you to stop doing that, just be more careful.Do you regret doing things like that when you were a kid?.... You know, I regret most the things I DIDN’T do then the things I actually did.What does that mean?Its
mean that I’d rather you try things and experience the world and make
mistakes sometimes rather than you never trying anything.. it also means
that I love you a lot.I love you too.#pascalcampion

Monday, May 08, 2017

Slowing down.
There is something about slowing down that makes
you think differently and when you think differently your senses pick up
the world around you in a different way and you literally see a whole
new universe of colors and forms and sensations. I use to think the
world was just ONE way but I’m realizing it really is a thousand
different ways #pascalcampion

Sunday, May 07, 2017

Lost together.
From 2016.
-Hey!!
-HEY!!
-I am lost...can you help me?
-I’m lost too...
-.....
-....
-I’ve an idea!
-...What’s that?
-How about if we are lost TOGETHER!
That way, I’d feel less scared.
-Me too!
-wow.. it’s actually fun to be lost together.-yeah..doesn’t really feel like being lost at all!
#pascalcampion

Saturday, May 06, 2017

Somewhere, right now.I’m always thinking that everybody is the hero of his/her own narrative AND a secondary character in someone else’s.. The
idea that incredibly powerful and life changing stories are happening
right now probably just a few moments away from where we are is always
mind boggling to me.#pascalcampion